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Documentaries like Cocaine Cowboys

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The 3 reasons people love Cocaine Cowboys

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  1. You like smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami.

  2. You want the true story told by the people who lived it.

  3. You like seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers.

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  • The Seven Five2015

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you like hearing how a cop ran a drug business from his patrol car.

  • Fear City: New York vs The Mafia2020

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it
    • seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers

    Good for you if you like the mafia seen from the inside of a real investigation.

  • Narcos2015

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you want the hunt for Pablo Escobar told through the American agents who were part of it.

  • Griselda2024

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you like the rise of a cartel boss told from the inside.

  • Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow2014

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you like a cartel story told across years of a trafficker's life.

  • American Made2017

    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you like the true story of Barry Seal, who flew for the CIA and the cartel at once.

  • American Gangster2007

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you like a story loosely based on the real Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts.

  • Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord2012

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it
    • seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers

    Good for you if you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.

  • Cartel Land2015

    • the true story told by the people who lived it
    • seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers

    Good for you if you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them.

  • Bus 1742002

    • the true story told by the people who lived it

    Good for you if you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.

  • Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger2014

    • smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami
    • the true story told by the people who lived it
    • seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers

    Good for you if you want to follow a real trial and what it uncovered.

  • El Chapo2017

    • the true story told by the people who lived it
    • seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers

    Good for you if you want the three decades of a real cartel rise, year by year.

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